Samsung Galaxy S4: 10 exclusive or little-known features review

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05 Apr 2013, 07:17posted on

As with every phone that's been in the office for a while, we are constantly discovering hidden nuggets or extra small features that make life with the handset easier, and the Samsung Galaxy S4 has plenty of those...

I agree with you. Only the Wifi seem to be eye catchy.
but. it's useless at this point really!
"Not that there is an abundance of 802.11ac routers on sale yet" nor ppl would know that it needs at least a shield Cat 6 cable to hook up the router.

It's up to your decision, I'm in the same but I find the dual stereo front speakers and Sense 5 more appealing than all the sensors you'd probably never use or super sensitive screen that a lot of people turn off in the Lumia 920 because it gets a little annoying

im sorry man, but Android world is all about gimmicks and features and thats what brought me to android instead of iOS. Take HTC and the weather clock for example, when i first saw it i said wow, and then a lot of companies did the same. If u ask me, this is a gimmick feature. Live wallpapers and some widgets are gimmicky, but is nice to have them.
Blink Feed is a great feature or a gimmicky? what else One has? the speakers I dont use it and most people I see, dont go listen to music without their headphones. If i listen without them, it would be elsewhere, not on my phone. If you think the build quality of the One is so great, you should watch the droptest between the iphone and the One. Some features you call gimmicky on S4, i call smart features.
What phone nowadays are revolutionary? its all about gimmicks or features that becomes afterwards standard on other phones.

duuuude whaaat??? what features?????!??!?!?!?!?!?!?! are we looking at the same phone there arent any features they copy windows phone and then a camera feature was unique other than beats you have literally no argument at all. get your one that will be just as awesome as the one x that was better than the s3 .... oh wait ... it wasnt

21.p5yb0rg (unregistered)

The HTC One is a well made phone. That is, in terms of design and physical quality. But as far as function and features, the GS4 is clearly the better choice of the two. Why let an aluminum body, that will most likely be covered by a plastic/rubber case, be the determining factor in choice?

get over it.. duhh?
in fact nemesis replied something not particular,, the article mentions 10 features, silencerzzz "gimmick labeled phone" while nemesis said "gimmick feature" so just one feature from him,,
and nemesis comment has sides of true and wrong statemnts
true: Nokia introduced it first
false:
in d first place, it's not a gimmick, glove feat is very useful, but this is a gimmick for close-minded people and true fanboys
the way nemesis said it, he implies that it is a gimmick bcoz its not d next big thing (duhhh, the sense?);; bcoz lumia used it first (duhh, the sense?)

its gimmick because it have many copycat feature that
1. Nokia glove mode
2. sony floating touch technology just check this video before saying samsung have new ideas or innovation
m.youtube.com/watch?client=mv-google&hl=en-GB&gl=I​D&v=jHUYVS8kqUQ
3. LG dual recording mode
you want more????
S4 is the best smartphone rigth now but it doesn't much have new ideas or innovations

please dont use GIMMICK just because samsung adopted those tech.. "gimmick" and "legal adopting" is diffrnt from one another,

copying?? dont u know that patents can be legally used by another?,, as long as there are legal licensng agreements, the word copying is out!, thus please give me ur evidence that samsung copied it and that samsung is BEING SUED for it,,.. and give me evidence that the other manufacturers uve mentioned invented those features.."please legal evidence" not those videos,, those features myt be already existing in the computer and mobile technology before LG SONY AND NOKIA adopted those features, if NOT> THEY ARE NOW SUING SAMSUNG.. get the sense??

another fact, dont u dare insult the company that has the largest number of mobile patents., u never know, ur company is also legally using these patents..

i am use Gimmick and copying because both you or samsung mobile chief jk shin said about innovation word theres no innovation if samsung use the same ideas and method ( i know not all the feature is from another company )
check !!! developer.sonymobile.com/knowledge-base/technologi​es/floating-touch/
the technology is developed by sony mobile and Cypress Technologies

do you remmeber your comment about airview and premium,
''The airview without s-pen is my best
feature.. I really miss the hover function
when visiting websites that require mouse
hovering action..''
''Yeah xperia Sola has that first, but what it
offers? almost nothing,, and that's
innovation made by samsung, expanding
new ideas from something not big before..''
Xperia sola is the first, it offers everything that S4 can do with airview, the innovation made by sony, and samsung not expanding new ideas
for closed minded fanboy like you everything in samsung device is samsung innovation
you trolled first by saying ''innovation'' word
and more than 5 feature in S4 is not samsung new ideas or innovation
with the help from developer Xperia SP can have S4 features
why Xperia SP?? because its the only smartphone that have screen technology like sola + front facing camera

the first comment uve quoted isnt mine :)
,, the ics update of xperia sola just added gloves feature..
the whole UI interface was developed by XDAmember, not Sony,.
but theres more that hovering tsu tsu can offer in gs4, hovering and will display signifcant info abt what u hovered upon (like images/albums, video exploring, displaying emails, etc etc), and those cant be done in ur xperia sola, it can just display down web menus. :)

''the problem is when you say xperia sola offer nothing and thats innovation made by samsung''
haha i give you prove and you talking about b**l s***t
almost all the feature in samsung android device its developed by developer ( all the android company need developer ) thats the reason why developer world exist, sony show them floating touch tech to developer so they can upgrade or add some more features
In
Android 2.3 floating touch could only be used with
browser, but an upgrade to Android 4.0.4 has brought
the ability to use this feature for entire interface (so called "glove mode" ) its NOT ONLY GLOVE MODE
souce en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Xperia_sola
the basic ideas is you can interact or controlled the entire user interface by hovering in combination with
floating touch.
And all the info stuff you said it have same idea with sola ( how you can interact the user interface with hovering ) its not different with displaying web menu
S4 using the same ideas/methods with sola,
FYI glove mode in sola it not the same with lumia glove mode but the it have same ideas
Xperia sola : The software could also distinguish between a
"normal" touch, and a gloved touch, meaning normal
control of the device was possible without disabling
Glove Mode on the device.
Lumia 920 : Synaptics says it has distinct profiles for glove, skin and fingernail applications, and switches between
them as necessary, so perhaps pocket dialing won't be
such an issue.

As you labelled it "gimmick", how well did those inventor companies optimize their advantage?? Samsung may not be the first to use this technology but they did it right. There will be more company like Flipboard, Facebook will take advantage their technology in the future.

Make it First and make it right is completely different things.
Now tell me how can developer and 3rd party help HTC to improve popularity and superiority?

The 1 reason I will get this phone (international) = That Exynos 5 is the fastest thing out there right now. No gimmicks the s4 (international) owns everything else just because the processor/gpu used in it.

ahh.. Exynos 5 octa the biggest gimmick of samsung
it design for power efficient not speed or power
Antutu benchmark result on internet:
Exynos 5 octa clocked 1.8 GHz scored 27000+
Tegra 4 with max clock speed 1.9 GHz scored 36000+
Tegra have powerful Gpu
Exynos 5 octa is only over 10% more fast than S600 with some optimization S600 will be fast enough to compete with Exynos 5 octa
S600 also have good GPU and excellent battery life
so if you want the best CPU and GPU just wait S800 ora Tegra 4 device

before you saying i doesn't know anything about technology and
now ''u probably dont know anything abt LB archtcture''
its call ARM big.LITTLE™
you are really dumb you know please read your friends comment before answer my comment
hdshatter need the fastest thing out there, not power efficiency and because Exynos 5 is still not out yet so S600 is still the fastest, and S600 have excellent power efficiency, many samsung fans think 8 core in Exynos 5 octa will be the fastest be the reality from benchmark result 5 octa only over 10% faster than S600
both S800 or Tegra 4 is faster than Exynos and they claims it will be power efficient

yah hdshatter is wrong coz tegra4 cud be d fastest ryt now,
but my POINT IS u are totally fanboyilly wrong to say the exynos is a gimmick..the b.L arch implies a genius implementation and structure..
as far as wer handling and comparing devices RYT NOW, gs4 w/ the exynos is d fastest ryt now coz the market still dont have s800 and tegra4 devices.. :)

why don't you read my comment correctly,
many people only see 8 core so thats why they think it will be blazing fast and because of that i am using ''gimmick'' word
most of them doesn't know that big.LITTLE aim to strike the best balance between performance and power consumption.
Ok now please tell me Where i can buy S4 Exynos version????

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